The Press., 1887-02-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washincton. n G Ian


 quently for their rights, and telling the old, old story of their wrongs, just as they have done in Washington every successive win ter for nineteen years. Many of the faces on the platform are familiar from their ire quent journeyings to this Mecca of their hopes; and every year there are some new ones.
 There is something at once sublime and pathetic in their persistence. They are undismayed. Opposition is nothing. Dis appointments are nothing. Yet nobody knows better than these women that they nave expended 8 good deal of their strength upon men of straw, instead of on their husbands and sons and brothers.
 During the very hour of the opening of their convention here, the senate rejected Gheir proposed amendment to the consti- tuition, giving woman the right ofsufrage, by vote of thirty-five to sixteen. The ladies of the convention are iubilant over this triumph. Defeat exclaimed Miss An thony, 'swhy no, it was triumph for us. We have on our side one third of the United States Senate. This is the first ime, continued she, ''that we ever got a vote on our amendment at all. We have accomplished great deal in securing rec 1gnition." When asked what right she h ld to claim one third of the senate as 1 friendly to woman suffrage, she picked up the printed record of the vote and said, | .sWell, there were sixteen senators who voted for the bill Of the absentses we count on Allison, Aldrich, Cameron, Chace, Dawes. Frye, Miller, Plumb, Sabin, and Stanford<as our friends" She had some doubts about Harrison of Indiana. fThere are eleven of them, who with the sixteen chat voted" said she, ''make in all twenty seven senators on our side.
 | Miss Anthony proceeded to state thell l future plan of action. In the case of sen ators who are known as their opponents when they come up for election again great efforts will be made to prevent thel1 | return to the senate. In Kansas the wom' en would work for the election of members to the legislature who would promise tt support for the United States Senate only some man pledged to vote for their amend | ment.
 She mentioned that they had five hun 1 dred women making speeches through hou the country, and that Mrs. Frances Will lard, who is now here, was at the head o1 half 8 million women, all pledged to wom an suffrage. These women had discovered that prayers and tears were intellectual tc get rid of saloons when the mans vote 1 brought the saloon into existence FanG they are with us," said she, "because they want to vote on this one question. Both congress and the social world o 1 Washington have been busy during the week. Besides dismissing the woman sui fragists, and disposing of the Canadian fishery trouble, by passing the retaliatory L.: Glo a4o fo6 fhoM Mp ot 1 thews, the colored lawyer from Albany as recorder of deeds of the District o Columbia and then settled down to the discussion of Agricultural Experiment Sta tions. The house of representatives has given its time to the consideration an6 passage of appropriation bills, and society has whirled in on incessant round of gay ety.
 1 One of its notable events was the annua. ball at the Chinese Legation Nothing was left undone by the distinguished host to make the affair elegant and complete il all it's arrangements, but the raid upon the banquet table by portion of the guests
 IS the talk of the town. Nothing like ii was ever seen in Washington before. La dies stoo6two rows deep around the wall and men struggled three deep around the able to secure refreshments, as if foo6 ] had not been tasted before for days. The scramble was even wild and disgusting The Chinese minister paid the honors o1 the evening to Mrs. Folsom, the mother-ir. law of the president, and accompanied hei to supper.
 The week has been lively one in teIe- phone circles, as the great suit is now in progress. An imposing array of legal salent is present, and the argument in the U. S. Supreme court has drawn the pub lie daily. When MT. Lowery, for the Molecular Company, arose to continue his argument yesterday, the room was crowd ed with attorneys and the tables and desks were filled with telephone models As he speaks he gives object lessons by means of the models.
 At times three or four lawyers are on their feet, assisting in the demonstrations to the justices, who ask many practical questions, and the scene is at times very amusing, as well as instructive The gath ering of spectators is made up largely of distinguished persons, many of them law Sers from distance, who came solely to hear and see these proceedings,